Cauleen Smith on How Art Facilitates Protest and Introspection

Portrait of Cauleen Smith.
Cauleen Smith’s 1998 debut feature film Drylongso highlights societal threats toward Black men. Since its release, Smith has regularly explored topics such as African American identity and Black feminism in experimental films and multimedia art installations. Her recent film Sojourner (2018)—accompanied by a comfy couch and a disco ball—revisits Black spiritual and cultural history through the writings of Shaker visionary Rebecca Cox Jackson, abolitio